Blake Lively 'It Ends' Costar Cosigns in Battle with Baldoni
The cast of “It Ends With Us” is now openly taking sides in the sexual harassment dispute between Blake Lively and the movie’s director, Justin Baldoni.
Fans were urged to read the entire complaint Blake filed against Baldoni by Brandon Sklenar, who plays Atlas Corrigan in the movie. He wrote on Instagram, “For the love of god read this.”
By tagging Blake in the Instagram story and including a red heart emoji, he demonstrated his support for her.
It’s unclear whether Brandon, who also appears in the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923,” knew about Blake’s problems with Baldoni during the filming process.
The story was revealed by Etonightdaily. According to Blake’s legal documents, Baldoni made the “It Ends” set a hostile place to work by showing her explicit videos of his wife, talking about his sexual life, and other things. Text messages between Baldoni’s PR team discussing a smear campaign against Blake are also included in her complaint.
Blake thinks the campaign to remove her from public office was revenge for calling for an “all-hands” meeting to discuss Baldoni’s alleged behavior in public while the movie was being filmed.
It goes without saying that when the film was released earlier this year, Blake and Justin did not get along. They didn’t promote the movie together or pose together at the premiere.
“Vilifying the women who put so much of their heart and soul into making this film because they believe so strongly in its message seems counterproductive and detracts from what this film is about,” Brandon said at the time, addressing the widespread belief that this was due to creative differences in the film’s direction.
But according to Blake’s filing, there was more sinister undertones to the conflict with Justin.
“That Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations is shameful,” stated Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer. These assertions are wholly untrue, ludicrous, and purposefully offensive in order to cause harm to the public and perpetuate a story in the media.
Blake has received support from a number of friends and actors in addition to Brandon, some of whom were not in the movie. These include Amber Heard, who has a personal connection to Baldoni’s troubled public relations team, and Michele Morrone, who costarred with Blake in “A Simple Favor 2.”
“It’s usually not my thing to make these types of videos, but I think it’s time to stand up for a person I really love, and this person is Blake Lively,” Michele stated in a video post.
Michele encouraged supporters to read the entire complaint against Baldoni, just like Brandon did.
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